Before you start reading, I think it's important to tell you that I am merely a free-to-play wizard on Wizard101, and therefore apologize if I make any errors regarding any plotline past Triton Avenue. I've done extensive searching on several fansites, forums, and wikis to make this as accurate as possible, but nobody's perfect, and I still don't understand too much of this Dragon Titan stuff. But id est quod est, my dear readers.
Adrienne Mythwhisper was one exasperated mother.
Five kids, included among them a set of twins, were the source of her exasperation, especially since all five of said kids were proving to be powerful Wizards already, not to mention the cousins that lived next door, whom her sister Anastasia was always after her to watch while she was off vacationing in Azteca. And then there was her husband, Dustin, who almost never came home, ever since he'd been appointed to keep an eye on the entire Cyclops Legion, since Cyrus was too busy assigning his latest students too much homework to watch them.
Thankfully, her oldest daughters, the twins, were nearly old enough to enroll in Ravenwood School. And soon after them, the second oldest would begin schooling. And the youngest two were the best behaved (though that wasn't saying any of them were particularly well behaved.)
Just now, the youngest, Neela, who was six years old, was descending the stairs, but jumping down each one so that it creaked underneath her weight. Her blonde hair, like that of her slightly older sister Megan, had a slight wave to it, and it bounced every time she stuck her landing. Adrienne was a little irritated that Neela was all but crashing through the stairs, but she had to sit back and smile at the little ball of energy.
Megan, on the other hand, was sitting in a blue chair that was five times larger than her, curled up with one of Dustin's old spellbooks, from a better time when Ravenwood wasn't struggling for new teachers, a time when the Myth School was taught by Adrienne's grandmother, Lyra. But Lyra had been struck by a cold a year before, a terrible and deadly cold that had already claimed twelve lives in Wizard City alone, a cold that, just when it seemed it was gone, came back with enough force to punch out even the little energy-balls like Neela; and the Myth School teacher was replaced by Dustin's cohort, Cyrus Drake.
The door burst open just then, letting in the three older children: Emma and the twins, Iridian and Grace. (For the record, Adrienne didn't believe in naming twins names that started with the same letter. She had found that they became more annoying when you did that, especially in the case of her twin sister Anastasia. After all, the Drake brothers didn't seem to have a problem with each other.)
Iridian immediately went up to her room to begin on the preliminary schoolwork given to her by Cyrus (a tradition that Adrienne found completely ridiculous, but that she could hardly complain about, since it was what had tipped the scale in favor of Myth when the Book of Secrets couldn't choose between it and Ice). Grace followed her after throwing her cloak in the wash. Emma, a year younger than the thirteen-year-old twins, pulled a random book off the shelf and plopped down next to Megan in the chair. The ten-year-old protested, but moved to make room.
Adrienne breathed a sigh of relief that all five kids were indoors again. Strange things were stirring in Wizard City, and this time she was sure it wasn't just her fantasy, her love of all things dramatic and dangerous, the nature of a conjurer. This time, it was real.